{"id":273188,"date":"2025-11-20T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:23:08","slug":"novelists-worried-ai-could-replace-them-cambridge-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273188\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelists worried AI could replace them, Cambridge report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report found that 97% of novelists were &#8220;extremely negative&#8221; about the notion of AI writing complete novels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 40% said AI had already hit the income they received from other work they did to support their novel-writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Collett, who published the document in partnership with the Institute for the Future of Work, said: &#8220;Many novelists felt uncertain there will be an appetite for complex, long-form writing in years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, many authors said they had found books that falsely claimed to have been written by them, and about 60% of those who took part in the study said their work had been used to train AI large language models without their permission or payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Copyright law must continue to be reviewed and might need reform to further protect creatives,&#8221; Dr Collett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is only fair that writers are asked permission and paid for use of their work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report found that 97% of novelists were &#8220;extremely negative&#8221; about the notion of AI writing complete novels.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}